I’m not sure what Cate Blanchett is promoting in this new Marie Claire interview. She doesn’t have a film coming out in the immediate future, although she will have some new releases in the fall/winter. Perhaps she’s promoting her endorsement deal with Armani? That could be it. That’s the new thing for celebrities – they promote their modeling contracts like they promote their films. The pay is probably about the same too, and it’s much less work. Anyway, La Blanchett’s “20 Questions” with Marie Claire is charming. Up to a point. She crosses a line into utter grossness though when describing her favorite food.
1. What brings you the greatest joy? Watching my children sleep.
2. What brings you the greatest satisfaction? Surviving opening night.
3. What is the best gift you’ve ever received? A painting by Mavis Ngallametta.
4. What charities do you support? The Australian Wildlife Conservancy, the Australian Conservation Foundation, Sydney Children’s Hospital, and Biennale of Sydney.
5. What is your greatest indulgence? Fragrance.
6. What is on your perennial to-do list? Tackle the mess in our attic.
7. What is on your bucket list? Take up figure drawing; visit the Antarctic and Greenland.
8. What is on your bookshelf? Anne Summers’ The Misogyny Factor and Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments.
9. Who is on the guest list for your ideal dinner party? Amy Poehler, Julian Schnabel, Steven Soderbergh, Tim Flannery, Hillary Clinton, Christine Lagarde, and Elaine Stritch.
10. What makes you laugh? This question.
11. What makes you cry? The missing schoolgirls in Nigeria.
12. What item in your closet do you wear the most? My Acne boots.
13. What is your beauty secret? Sunscreen.
14. What splurge is well worth it? A kayak.
15. What do you never leave home without? Lipstick and wet wipes.
16. What is your favorite food? Cheese and Vegemite on toast.
17. What movie has the greatest ending? Brief Encounter.
18. What song instantly puts you in a good mood? “Proof” by I Am Kloot.
19. How did you make your first dollar? Working in the kitchen of an old-age home in high school.
20. What is the best advice you’ve ever been given? Follow your nose.
Cheese and Vegemite on toast? NOOoooo. That sounds so gross. I guess that’s where Cate gets her Aussie cred though – Aussies love their Vegemite. Is that a controversial statement? Is it bad form to make some kind of sweeping generalization about what one nationality likes to eat? Italians love pasta. The Brits love fish & chips (and Indian food). The Swiss love chocolate. The French love croissants. And Aussies love Vegemite. I feel like the Aussies got the short end of the stick, national-food-wise.
I do love her answer about ideal dinner party guests – who knew she was a fan of Amy Poehler? Hollywood needs to make that happen – a buddy film with Cate and Amy.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
I would love to be at that dinner party. I also love vegemite!
Though it’s pretty much the same I love Marmite on saltines, I’m well aware it’s not a taste most share and if I bring it up in conversation it’s purely for shock value.
Still, it’s good. I just wish it wasn’t so expensive in the states!
Marmite on fresh twigs!
Great for a New Year’s Eve party snack.
OI!!!! Cheese and vegemite on toast is delicious! It second only to vegemite and egg on toast.
another Aussie chiming in to say Cheese and Vegemite is delicious. But not for initiated foreigners…!
And of course cheese and vegemite spawned the diabolically heart attack inducing but oh.so.good bakers delight Cheeseymite.
Don’t pretend lyou don’t know what I’m talking about Aussies 😉
If you ease a newbie into it it’ll be fine. People make the mistake of laying it on thick. Classic rookie error :p I can’t say I’ve ever had a cheesymite from Baker’s Delight.
OMG Cheesymites. Must try those…
I don’t know… If people are being rude to me I let them slather it on with no butter 😉
If you’re a carboholic stay away from the cheesymites. They are soooo good. But bad. Very very bad.
Hang on, hang on . . .
What *kind* of egg on the vegemite and toast?
Cheesymite reheated in the microwave. Nom nom nom.
It is all relative. A peanut and jelly sandwich sounds like torture to me. Yak!
Hellloooooo Amelia!
A soft boiled egg so you can make the vegemite toast into soldiers. I don’t care if that makes me a child trapped in a 27 year old body. That’s how I do it. 😀
is vegemite like marmite? if it is then it is deeeeeelicious.
Ohmyf*ckingod that sounds amazing and I need to try this *now*.
I thought it was going to be scrambled, but that sounds infinitely better!!
Delicious! Right behind vegemite and avocado…yummo.
Ray
Sort of. It’s all a yeast extract, but people will swear 1 is better than the other.http://carondann.com/2013/05/25/marmiteversusvegemite/
Scroll down and it gives the differences laid out well.
If nothing else Marmite is my go to diet food. Makes you chug water and fills you up. Much too expensive to have all the time as i’d use a jar a week at my slowest.
I hear ya, my daughter would live on Cheesymite scrolls if I let her. I find other nationalities have no idea about being subtle with the Vege. Its not peanut butter people!
She must have a movie coming out in Australia. If the next premiere is in the deep American south, she’ll announce her favorite food to be pork rinds with tobasco.
CHEESYMITE SCROLLS!!!!
Kiwi chiming in to agree – especially when you grill it in the oven.
I’m salivating! I want this for breakfast now, although I’m out of eggs. Booo.
That’s how I got to taste marmite when I visited New Zealand (I’m from Europe). A really thin spread, in the oven, and I didn’t understand the others in my group complaining about the taste. I’ll admit to never having tried vegemite, though.
Butter vegemite and cheese on a freshly toastes piece of white bread is absolute heaven. Our national food is way better than many others *coughUSA
I agree. Americans love Hersheys but to me it takes like puke.
Here in South Africa, we have Marmite n its awesome.
I agree with the Person who said Austrailians love a bit of all good food.
Can I get a slow clap for sweeping generalizations, anyone? 😄
Lex, the beauty of American food is that we are such a blend of international influences. We don’t really have a “national food” because it varies so much from region to region, depending on the people that settled there.
See, there’s an art to making cheese and Vegemite on toast. One needs to have just the right amount of Vegemite – no slathering it on like axle grease! – and the appropriate cheese. Then, it’s truly delicious.
And here in Australia, we are spoilt for choice, because we also love our pasta, fish and chips, Indian food, croissants etc. In fact, we can and do, often sample food from Afghanistan to Zimbanwe…
My husband is British and he loves Vegemite and cheese on toast!!
I am Italian and I don’t really like pasta! Talking about generalisations lol
I’m from Louisiana, and I detest Cajun food. Green bell peppers. Barf. I don’t use hot sauce (except a little sriracha every now and then), don’t like rice, and I think New Orleans is overrated as a food city. My life involves a lot of people asking for help locating the gumbo mix at the grocery store, and my explaining to them “I never eat or cook the stuff.” I get a lot of dumbfounded looks. I’m bad at being Cajun 😉
Vegemite is delicious!!! You have to do it properly though, none of this thick piling-on we try to make tourists eat 😉 Freshly buttered toast with a thin scraping of Vegemite is sooo good. Vegemite and cheese is ok, Vegemite and avocado is better.
I have a piece of vegiemite and peanut butter toast every morning. Aussie, aussie, aussie!!
Dood. Vegemite & avocado on buttered & slightly burnt toast is heaven.
This Vegemite/avocado thing needs to be tried. I usually have avocado with Worcestershire sauce, which is a similar taste in terms of ZING AH MY FACE IS MELTING BUT SO DELICIOUS.
Cate is wrong. Cheese, Vegemite and Tomato on toast then grilled is the best.
I’ve heard of Vegemite, of course, mainly from the song The Land Down Under, but I have no idea what it is. I’m picturing mushed up vegetables? Anybody know?
No, it’s yeast extract. I have never eaten Vegemite, but I love Marmite, which is (i guess) British version.
I’ve had Marmite (easy to find in Canada) but never V-mite. I have always wondered if there’s any difference in taste, the way so many products differ in taste between US and Canada because of cultural prefs… Anyone know?
They do taste slightly different. Marmite is a little bit um… how to say? Saltier AND sweeter (somehow at the same time)? Vegemite is slightly more savoury.
First time I hear about Vegemite, I was about to ask if it’s the same that Marmite, so: thanks everybody!
GoodNamesAllTaken – Vegemite is a spread, and as Lucie said above, it’s made mostly of yeast extract. It’s really difficult to describe how it tastes – it’s a bit salty, malty and strong. It’s easy to understand why people have an aversion to it, but we (Australians) freaking LOVE it – we all grew up on it, it’s a way of life. I remember as a kid spreading it with butter on Sayo’s (a kind of cracker we have here) and squeezing until it all oozed out of the holes to lick off…delicious! I still eat Vegemite on toast just about everyday for breakfast.
And Kaiser – Australia got the short end of the stick national food wise? No no. Along with Vegemite we have Tim Tams, ANZAC biscuits, damper, kangaroo, meat pies and pavlova, to name a few. We also have the incredible luxury of a very accessible and high quality agriculture industry – plenty of fresh meat, veg, seafood, fruit, grain and dairy. We’re pretty freaking happy, thanks!
Worms!
FranticallyBored – Haha, exactly! So much fun, and good childhood memories fighting my siblings off mine! Think I might go make some now…
We are a very lucky country! 😉
Uh, pavlova? I think not, Oz.
Tim Tams are the best. I mean.. when I was in Australia I used to eat 1 BOX A DAY . The caramel once are so very good and I miss them so much!
I thought Pavlova was originally from New Zealand? Maybe I’m wrong but I remember it being highly publicized as the national cake.
MisJes! You forgot the humble lamington!!!!!!
+1000
JKL and Paola – I anticipated this. Yes, the pavlova appears to have originated in NZ. I am aware of this, and I’m not conspiring here to claim their invention. However, since pavlova has been a timeless staple dessert in Australia since the 1920/1930’s and it’s still culturally important to us, food-wise, I added it to the list. Relax.
Allons-y Alonso – Oh. My. God. LAMINGTON’S! Possibly the most delicious things, EVER. I can’t believe I missed them! I’m actually ashamed of myself!
Lol kiwis… pavlova is just meringue. Did you invent meringue? !??!?
Perfect description!!! I think it’s almost un-Australian to not like ‘vege’!!!
Cheeseymite scrolls from bakers delight are heavenly. As a kid I even had Vegemite and lettuce sandwiches. I think mum had run out of everything else!
It’s an acquired taste for foreigners but us Aussie kids grow up on it. It puts a rose in ever cheek 😉 and Aussie kids are Weet-Bix kids too!!
Oh and you can add Milo to the mix of great Aussie foods/drinks.
@MisJes & Paola – Tim Tams Yes! bite the ends off stick one end in your coffee and suck until the coffee comes through. Death by chocolate 🙂
In the UK they are Penguins.
More Aussie yummy stuff include Barramundi (fish), Flake (shark), Dim Sims (similar to chinese dumplings), Cherry Ripes (dark chocolate with cherry and coconut filling), BBQ Shapes (savory crackers with yummy spices sprinkled on it) and Jaffas (orange balls filled with chocolate)
Yes, Lozface! Fresh bread, real butter, Vegemite and iceberg lettuce!! This is what I have regularly. It’s as good as a great, classic, Aussie salad sandwich, but I make them when I can’t be arsed chopping up tomatoes, cucumbers etc I don’t know anyone else who likes Vegemite and lettuce sangers – most people I know haven’t even heard of this combo.
Aaaaannnndd… Weet Bix with real butter and a lick of Vegemite… Try it – it’s an amazing snack!
I saw an Aussie program a few months ago where a young guy was interviewed. He’d come into possession of various cookbooks and other documents, belonging to long-gone ancestors. Among these, were documents which, evidently, proved that the pavlova was, indeed, an Australian “invention. Apparently, these documents pre-dated anything the Kiwis have ever been able to produce to support their claims… Don’t shoot me. I happen to love Kiwis. I married one.
YES TIM TAMS ARE LIFE
But of course NZ had the pavlova first ; p. Someone had to say it!
Marmite (the NZ version) and cheese on toast is called a mousetrap and they are delicious – as well as being my go-to hangover cure!
Wow, Sacred and Profound!!! I can’t believe I have found someone else that eats it too 🙂 Even worse my dad has vegemite on Fruit Toast. I never quite got that one.
Weet-bix with Jam and Cream – a truckie’s scone!
And they say Australia has no culture… we’ve just listed plenty of culture right there. Top it all off with a meat pie and a lamington!!
oh yes!!!! however it more the vita wheats that mum would use, they had bigger holes than saos more worms to lick off and then Vegemite soliders ( the toast cut into three) and soft boiled eggs utter heaven for a sunday night Tea after the huge baked dinner at lunch 😀
I love me some Cheesymites!! Sooooo good. Love Vegemite & cheese on toast. My daughter wants a Vegemite and cheese sandwich every day for school. There is nothing like a great quality bread being slathered with butter and a bit of Vegemite.
We Aussies are very lucky food-wise. Great fruit, fresh vegetables, terrific quality meat & seafood, as well as being spoilt for choice with easy access to international cuisine. And we have the nectar of the gods – Vegemite!!!
God, I’m hungry now…..
Thanks, everyone! I love salty. I will definitely try if I ever get to your beautiful part of the world.
New Zealanders can have pavalova but they have to take Russell Crowe as well 😜
For the style-conscious, Marmite has the cooler jar by miles!
When I was a kid at school there was a craze for using Twiglets (long straw-like biscuit snacky things slathered in Marmite) as drinking straws: bite the end off and slurp your school milk through the Twiglet. Surprisingly low death rates ensued.
Rubbish. Beans on cheese on Vegemite (or Marmite, but never Bovril) on toast is the food of champions.
So many new ways of enjoying Vegemite! I never imagined Celebitchy could provide me with such culinary tips!
@embertine-what in the name of all that’s Australian is Bovril?! That sounds like a very powerful anti-biotic. I can’t shade anyone on gross food loves as I have a few of my own that are drreadful. Let the lady have her cheese and Vegemite!
I believe it is the equivalent of Marmite/Vegemite but made with boiled cows rather than yeast extract or vegetables. It tastes fairly similar to the others but more beefy as you would expect. I think it was originally made to be used as stock.
It is pretty unpleasant, in my opinion, especially when mixed with boiling water and made into a drink, supposedly to “put hairs on your chest” but really to initiate you into the ways of the Dark Lord Satan, because it is NASTY.
Despite being a Brit, I prefer Vegemite every time.
@embertine – well done, you made me spit my drink all over my computer screen, thankfully it was not the preferred drink of our Dark Lord. Drinking the essence of a poached bovine herd just does not sound like my idea of a good time. Blech.
On the other hand, if I ever get to Oz I must try a lamington, a flat white, and thanks to this post – vegemite. And what are these Vanilla Slice thingy’s I keep hearing about?
Bovril is a beef bouillon.
Thank you both for explaining…Bovril. I LMAO at “it is made from boiled cows” as I pictured a lovely old farmer just air-dropping cows into a huge tea kettle. I love you Brits and Aussies with all of my heart!
That’s our national food you’re insulting!!
The most fun game for an Australian to play when overseas is to make people try Vegemite and watch their shocked and disgusted faces. I think you have to be grow up with…might go have some vegemite toast now.
As an Aussie I can confirm that everyone here loves Vegemite – it’s a staple. And we’re mildly amused that everyone else hates it. 🙂
Most supermarkets in The Netherlands carry it too. I love it on cheese!
Not everyone loves it, possum, not everyone.
Not everyone loves it or has it regularly in Australia. I’m guessing less than half of the people I know eat it on a regular basis. It’s 25 per cent salt but it’s tasty once in a while. It’s basically a stronger version of marmite.
Just when I thought I couldn’t love her anymore.
I’m an Australian living in Mexico and your heading made me homesick! I would LOVE to have some vegemite on toast — my favorite combo is vegemite and avocado with a fried egg on top. Awesome!!
HA. Obviously, it should be cheese and MARMITE on toast. MARMITE is much bettererer than Vegemite. Personally, I prefer cheese and Worcestershire sauce on toast.
This. I’ve had Vegemite and it’s rather meh; Marmite is delicious and amazing with a good strong cheddar cheese, especially on Marie biscuits.
I’m from the US and I imagine this being similar to a love of a kraft single grilled cheese or pb&j here. Nasty to some, delicious and comforting to others.
That was my take–her favorite food is one that conjures the comforts of childhood. Nothing new, shocking or disgusting here…
Mmmmm…salty savoury things on toast. Yes please.
I second her beauty secret. I’m 43, but started wearing a moisturizer with SPF in my early 20s (Oil of Olay). People cannot believe I am over 30, to this day. (Well, that, and, as Elaine Benes proclaims, “shade.”) So, pro tip to the 20-somethings reading this: start now! 🙂
I really dont think you Yanks can comment on bad food when you’ve been eating yoga mats in Subway for the last few decades 😉
*drops mic*
That assumes that people actually eat at subway…. I have never done so, and neither have most of my friends. 🙂
Exactly! Subway doesn’t influence my eating choices whatsoever.
To be fair, I don’t think the comment about Australians getting the “short end of the food stick” was a good idea, though. Their food options are not just limited to vegemite and toast! I can understand Arch’s desire to strike back against the “yanks” for that.
Don’t lump me in that category. I like Vegemite and do not eat at Subway. 🙂
I once paid $13 for a half used tube of Vegemite in ‘of the beaten path’ rural town in Northern India. My daily budget was $20 and no I didn’t think about the ‘ick’ factor. After 4 months in India I was too excited to see vegemite to car how old it was or that it was open. I figured the fermented yeast killed everything else. I have told many people this story and every other Australian agrees that they would do the same.
Sarah – I’m so with you, I would probably have paid the whole $20 just to lick Vegemite off someone’s finger!
I had a tub of Vegemite that was 11 years old when I was growing up. We eventually threw it out after the cat licked most of it out of the jar, when I foolishly left the lid off. Amazingly, the cat did NOT die immediately of kidney failure, but lived to nearly 20.
I hear you there lol once on a school camp where there was no vegemite , I mean really, I found a friend with a very small jar of it her mum had packed in case ……………………….. we ate the jar by dipping Adora Cream Wafers in it and getting it into our systems that way it was ok actually 😀
She’s lovely, but the quality of those pictures make it seem like her husband took them on dress up night of their anniversary cruise. Awful.
the pictures are awful. budget. the angle is amateur and unflattering.
Exactly. What the heck is going on with her nose, up towards the bridge??
Vegemite or marmite, either one is an abomination upon mankind and both should have disappeared when nutrition improved after the war. There is no excuse in modern times for either!!!
The same can be said about margarine, did you know it was developed during the war to feed cows with…..they all died, so they decided to feed it to humans instead.
I actually like Vegemite toast every now and again. I tried it after hearing it mentioned in the Men at Work song when I was a kid and liked it.
Doesn’t sound appealing to me, but I go by the saying “Don’t yuck my yum.” I won’t criticize what you like as long as you don’t try to force it on me. (unless, of course, you are Elle MacPherson, in which case I will criticize freely…ground rhino horn???)
“Don’t yuck my yum.”
I like that! 🙂
After I spent several month in New Zealand, all my kiwi friends refer to Vegemite as the ‘convict spreading shite’ because to them the best in the world is obviously the Nz Marmite.
Too bad the factory was closed down after the earthqueake in Christchurch.. and as a profane on this matter, I tried Australian Vegemite, Nz Marmite and Uk marmite and they all taste horrible to me. I apologize to all the people Down Under but it’s one of the most disgusting things I’ve ever tasted! 😀
Paola – I have Tuscan friends and, every year when we go to see them, I have to bring a) Marmite, b) teabags and c) Lush bath products!
Ahah!
But you can find Mrmite in Florence! And there is a Lush shop right into town!! If your friends don’t know where to find these things I coud help!
They don’t go to Florence much. And I don’t think there’s a Lush in Lucca! Heehee.
Ciao, Paola! I came to Australia from Sardegna when I was 3.5. The day I started school at 5, I took a Vegemite sandwich for lunch. My older brother still detests it, but the rest of us have always loved it. I’m still wondering how we even came to have a jar in the house to start with…
And no matter what anyone says, Sardinia still tops the world for the most disgusting food – ever. Don’t make me tell them about it…
@Sixer
Goodness gracious, I never met a Tuscan who eats marmite, swear to God… I am not a typical Italian (meaning I can eat or taste nearly every cooking in the world and like it), but marmite is the only thing I always declined to eat after the first time I tasted it!!
@sacred and profane
I like malloreddus… I think that every cooking, regional or national, has its nice dishes as well as horrible ones… I was born in Tuscany but I will never taste several typical dishes because I find them disgusting (what about ‘migliacci’? Pancakes made out of pork’s blood… Yuck yuck!)
Where are you from Paola? I’m from Milano!
Chiming in on the vegemite and cheese on toast, it’s actually completely tasty! (Saying this as an American living in the UK for 8+ years). It’s like savory cheese on toast (grilled cheese). Aussies also have the Aussie burger (or my New Zealand friends would say the Kiwi burger), more epic tastiness! As for La Blanchett, she is the best!! Happy Tuesday Everyone!
I’ve never had it, but I’ve always thought from the description that I would kind of like it.
Eh! It’s an acquired taste. Wouldn’t call it disgusting though. Maybe in other countries our macaroni in a box with orange powder is their Vegemite.
I freaking LOVE vegemite and cheese on toast. In fact, I might have some now 🙂
La Blanchett is spot on, as usual
Vegemite is tasty, but you have to use it correctly (meaning you can’t just plop a pile of it on toast or whatever). Never had it with cheese, though.
Love love love this Lady.
Stunning, smart, talented, a goddess.
Disgusting??!!! I beg your pardon?! Cheese and vegemite on toast is delicious!
I still won’t forgive her for dissing Sandy. Turns out all my friends came to the same conclusion independently. She’s a snob, Vegemite or not.
Yes, she diss Sandy so much at the Oscars that they partied together at Madonna’s after party (eyeroll). Some people just don’t get jokes I guess.
YUM!!!!!
Yeah it is gross (I can smell the stuff from 30 metres and it stops me in my tracks) but it’s their gross and they love it and we shouldn’t knock them for loving gross things.
You can’t compare Vegemite (or Marmite) to croissants, fish and chips, chocolate and pasta!! That’s very unfair, the Aussies do love nice things like prawns. Vegemite for Aussie would be more like snails for France, potted meat for Britain etc
Though if you really want to be put off your brekkie, google ‘gross foods’. Vegemite wouldn’t even crack the top 50. I don’t think I’m eating today at all.
Oh, yes, feebee, I’m putting money on the fact that my homeland’s “delicacy” tops that list…
Is it maggot cheese? Or worse? You have piqued my curiosity! I wouldn’t want to eat that stuff, but can honestly say, it’s not as vomit-inducing to me as the thought of consuming raw eggs. Gets me in the gag reflex every time.
Vegemite on anything – hell yeah!
As a Brit – who HATES Indian food with a passion – vegemite/marmite on toast is complete comfort food! Yum with cheese or beans or on soldiers dipped in boily eggs or twiglets! 🙂 ahhh know what I am getting for dinner tonight!
I’ve got to ask my fellow American celebitchy readers. Do you guys really put marshmallows on sweet potato at thanks giving ?
Anyone with sense does.
There used to be a chain called Boston Market that had the most incredible sweet potato and marshmallow casserole. It was mind-blowing.
I would love to try it. I can only image the flavours together but I think it makes sense!
It’s basically a dessert. Melted, ooey-gooey dessert 🙂
I agree with Kitten, it really makes more sense as a dessert – and yet it appears on the table with the rest of the meal, go figure…
Not sure it’s a southern thing, mom goes hog wild with the marshmallows and she’s never been further south than Nebraska…sweet potatoes, butter, brown sugar, pineapple, chopped walnuts or pecans (dealer’s choice), and mini-marshmallows on top. Baked in the oven until the marshmallows get all melty and brown. And it usually is reserved for Thanksgiving…you’re not really going to see it on any random day of the week during any other time of the year.
Hell no. It’s a Southern thing, and as a northerner, I find it completely and utterly disgusting. I thought it was a joke that no one really ate until I moved south. My sweet potatoes are served with butter and possibly cinnamon, thanks.
We are a BIG country. Pizza is the closest we get to a “national food”, and even that is done differently everywhere. (Thin crust on the East Coast, deep dish in the Great Lakes area, etc.) Even our ice cream has regional differences.
I’m a northerner and I think it’s amazing.
I also think southern fried chicken is amazing.
*shrugs*
Yes we are a big country.
With a lot of people.
Who have diverse opinions about food that are not necessarily regionally-dependent.
Boston Market still sales it in Georgia. It is called ‘Sweet Potato Soufflé ‘. It’s delicious. I usually don’t like it from anywhere else but Boston Market.
Some people do, I think it’s kinda gross, but I don’t like marshmallows, so….
Best way ever to eat sweet potatoes.
http://www.food.com/recipe/ruths-chris-sweet-potato-casserole-278583
I swear to you, it’s heaven!
I love sweet potatoes. I like them as fries, dipped into maple syrup. I like them spicy with a bit of cayenne. I like them mashed with salt and butter. I like them roasted in coins with just a bit of olive oil, salt and pepper.
They are so delicious, and they work well sweet or savory.
Oh my god yes Tiger Toast as I used to call it as a kid because my Mum used to put the vegimite on the cheese in stripes. Love it!
A friend from college always said “don’t yuck another person’s yum.” It applies here (and many other situations).
Well, so much for discussing Ms Blanchett, her photo shoot, clothing, styling, interview etc…..
lol,this debate makes me recall the first time I tried marmite in the UK( I’m from Italy).Actually at the beginning I hated British food and I couldn’t wait to find Italian food shops! Other Italian friends of mine instead,really loved it’! I think it’s one of those food whose taste gets mixed reactions.
I am Italian and I eat British food. Not marmite though, yuck!
HEAVY SIGH.
God, it’s going to be one of THOSE posts, isn’t it?
“I’m British, so I’m better than you”
“I’m Australian, so I’m better than you”
“I’m American, so I’m better than you”
“I’m South African, so I’m better than you”
And how can we forget the “you’re American, surely you eat subway and Hersheys, and put marshmallows on sweet potatoes, so you don’t know anything about food” posts?
Frankly I expected more from our international community.
I’m American, it doesn’t mean I’m fat with poor taste or better than you. I have never had vegemite, and never will because I’m ridiculously anal about food. Sauces creep me out. No ranch, blue cheese, mayonnaise, mustard, vinaigrette, or vegemite spread for me. I know that I’m weird. I will also not eat subway or McDonald’s and actually don’t allow bread even in my house. If I eat chocolate it will not be Hersheys, and sweet potatoes are just awesome. No matter what you do to them. Ya’ll leave my sweet potatoes alone. They are the best, baked, boiled, turned to fries, with or without marshmallows. They are delicious. I want to roll around in sweet potato heaven.
That being said, we all seem to love cheese, let us come together over cheese, and forget our differences?
I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy *sob*
This reminds me of the major wankstorm that happened over a cake recipe recently: http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/rainbow-cake-recipe-inspires-comment-apocalypse-1592575661/+AlbertBurneko
Pretty sure we should all just close the internet and go home when a simple difference in food taste brings out the nationality-based insults.
Those are some hostile comments over rainbow cake 😐 seriously. Rainbow cake. For a five year old.
Just, no 🙅 no no nope nope nuh uh. Nooopppppeeeeee. http://www.thepetcollective.tv/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/enough-internet-cat.gif
In all seriousness I just don’t see sweeping generalizations and insults about nationality as a productive reaction. I’ve heard vegemite is gross and I’ve heard it’s good. I’m not one to throw stones, as I have an unreasonable love of bacon.
It must be the cheese that is tasty. Not the bread. I prefer pesto. Vegimite just tastes salty to me like soy sauce
Those cannes pics of her in the yatch are just so beautiful. So stunning.
I have tried vegemite (I didn’t want but I was at a friends dinner party) and I was gadly surprised it was delicious. So she is definetely right in this (usually she is),but I always her fave food was white rice as she said it on Oprah some years ago. Great choice either way.
I ‘m from NZ, you can get marmite and cheese stuffed crust pizza. I personally don’t like the combo but it’s as popular here as pb&j is in America.
Hi to a fellow Kiwi! 🙂
I love both marmite and vegemite on buttered toast, with eggs or cheese or both and a mandatory cup of hot tea if marmite. Delicious.
Not a huge fan of vegemite but it’s fine. I like Branston Pickle and Cheese sandwiches.
When I visit NZ I was surprised that they put red beets on their hamburgers.
Her answer to the first question surprised me a little but I guess I understand it. I think the greatest joy is when kids wake up and greet you. Or when you come home from work and they are so happy to see you.
Cheesymite scrolls anyone?
Vegemite is delicious. Just stop, Kaiser.
+1
The factory in Christchurch has been open again for quite a while, Paola, thank goodness, and new supplies of Marmite are now readily available again in Australia.
Someone mentioned my blog post already above (thank you!), but if you want to know the difference between Aussie Vegemite, UK Marmite and NZ Marmite: http://carondann.com/2013/05/25/marmiteversusvegemite/
Vegemite is very similar to the British Marmite , both have a very salty, acidic taste, the trick is to spread it very thinly , half a teaspoon on a slice of hot buttered toast will ease you into it. Then onto the big time , grilled cheese with a thin smear of Vegemite on top, Vegemite spread on buttered toast cut into strips and dipped in soft boiled eggs, Vegemite and lettuce sandwiches (lots of shredded lettuce ), a teaspoon of Vegemite added to gravy for extra flavour, or a teaspoonful in a cup of boiling water makes a calorie free bullion when your tired of tea or coffee in the winter. Non-Australians make the mistake of slathering it on like jam. Vegemite is very much an acquired taste like caviar, anchovies or olives, but once you have acquired the taste you can’t do without it, Australians start on it when they are babies and never lose the craving for it.
I’m Italian and ì love Vegemite! I buy it in Milan.
Vegemite may be disgusting to some but the most awful thing I have ever come across is ‘Surströmming’ , canned fermented fish , it is truly disgusting, the smell is so bad it has to be eaten outdoors ( a concoction of vomit, rotten-eggs and rancid-butter would be perfume in comparison) and airlines ban it because of the real danger of the canned fish exploding mid flight.
German food critic and author Wolfgang Fassbender wrote that “the biggest challenge when eating surströmming is to vomit only after the first bite, as opposed to before.”
Cheese and Vegemite are the worlds best combo… nearly as good as avocado and vegemite with tomato!! – Good on you Cate!
It is so funny what different cultures find gross!
I guess it would be very similar to peanut butter and jelly for Americans. The first time I heard that people actually had that combination I couldn’t believe it, it sounded so gross. But to me marmite and cheese on toast is what I have grown up with and so comforting and yum 🙂
Cate also puts catsup on her pasta. And eats it.
Cheese and vegemite toasties…bliss! So good when the cheese and the vegemite all melts together…mmm.
I imagine it would taste like crap to the uninitiated though!
Marmite and pasta – as suggested by Nigella Lawson. It’s delicious (you need to add butter to help the marmite coat the pasta). Yum yum yum…